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nbc's ron mot is there for us in boston. we begin with nbc's michelle franzen, who's live at laguardia airport. let's get to the travel problems with you, michelle. are they improving? >> reporter: they are improving, alex. this is probably one of the best days since the storm blew in here and buried areas of snow. we're at laguardia. people filing through here most of the day. a handful of cancellations here at the airport. overall, just fewer than 600 airports around the country. that is a far cry from the last few days. air travel as well as road travel frozen in time. the monster storm blizzard literally stopped vehicles in their tracks. >> snow all over the place. >> reporter: along the long island expressway and ramps, frustration and a trail of scattered vehicles. some remain abandoned in drifts. >> how do i get out of this mess? >> reporter: dozens of drivers had to be rescued after spending part or all night in bone-chilling temperatures. in connecticut and rhode island, phones are finally open this morning after cr
nbc's ron mot is there for us in boston. we begin with nbc's michelle franzen, who's live at laguardia airport. let's get to the travel problems with you, michelle. are they improving? >> reporter: they are improving, alex. this is probably one of the best days since the storm blew in here and buried areas of snow. we're at laguardia. people filing through here most of the day. a handful of cancellations here at the airport. overall, just fewer than 600 airports around the country. that...
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i use it all the time. thank you very much, craig melvin. >>> let's get a report now from the weather channel's mike seidel in massachusetts where the nor'easter is causing serious havoc on the coastline. >> reporter: over 20 inches of snow has fallen here at revere beach. couple that with wind gusts over 60 miles per hour. and we've had drifts 3 to 4 feet deep. a lot of blowing snow around. but the plows have been going all night up revere beach boulevard. behind me look at the wave action. these are about 10 to 12-footers. they've been tempered by a break water land you can't see in the distance. but down the coast, those areas are getting battered by 2 20-footers. in haul they've had mandatory evacuations. voluntary evacuations where you throw those waves and throw that into the mix with a surge of 2 to 3 feet, we'll have issues with beach front properties. back here the beach front property looks fine over revere beach. seawall, elevation, and the waves never got over the seawall. you can see the snow s
i use it all the time. thank you very much, craig melvin. >>> let's get a report now from the weather channel's mike seidel in massachusetts where the nor'easter is causing serious havoc on the coastline. >> reporter: over 20 inches of snow has fallen here at revere beach. couple that with wind gusts over 60 miles per hour. and we've had drifts 3 to 4 feet deep. a lot of blowing snow around. but the plows have been going all night up revere beach boulevard. behind me look at the...
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. >> gabe, i know you'll monitor that news conference for us. let us know what happens. appreciate it. >>> overseas now details about the man allegedly behind the deadly terror attack on the u.s. embassy in turkey. the suicide bomber is reportedly identified as an ex-convict and likely linked to an outlawed anti-american group. the man blew himself up at the entrance of the embassy in the capital city of ankara yesterday. the attack killed a turkish security guard and wounded several others. there's been no claim of responsibility and officials are still looking for a motive. >>> to front page politics, new today president obama like you've never seen him before. white house press secretary jay carney tweeted this picture a short time ago. it's of the president who is shooting at clay targets. it was taken august 4th of 2012 on the range at camp david. the president had mentioned his skeat shooting exploits in an interview with the new republic last week. the pick toured release comes just ahead of the president's visit to minneapolis monday where he is going to promote
. >> gabe, i know you'll monitor that news conference for us. let us know what happens. appreciate it. >>> overseas now details about the man allegedly behind the deadly terror attack on the u.s. embassy in turkey. the suicide bomber is reportedly identified as an ex-convict and likely linked to an outlawed anti-american group. the man blew himself up at the entrance of the embassy in the capital city of ankara yesterday. the attack killed a turkish security guard and wounded...
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causes us concern also. so it's an opportunity there again to go clean up some of these loan guarantee programs, get rid of some of these redundancies. do we really need 80 different economic development programs that are coming through the department of commerce? do we need 100 economic development programs coming through transportation? do we need 82 different teacher quality programs in the department of education? those are the questions that should be asked. and our constituents are saying, hold firm. stay with this. let's get government on the track that it should be so that our future is sustainable. >> that may be. but if you look at some opinion polls here, this one from usa today, the majority of americans are supporting the white house's plans for all these major issues. do you worry at all that the republican party is not on the right side of public opinion? >> i think that what people, many people, whether they support the president or us, what they're saying is washington doesn't have a revenue
causes us concern also. so it's an opportunity there again to go clean up some of these loan guarantee programs, get rid of some of these redundancies. do we really need 80 different economic development programs that are coming through the department of commerce? do we need 100 economic development programs coming through transportation? do we need 82 different teacher quality programs in the department of education? those are the questions that should be asked. and our constituents are...